Posted on 06/15/2012 5:34:36 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
On eve of health ruling, Ruth Bader Ginsburg predicts 'sharp disagreement' By: Kyle Cheney June 15, 2012 07:23 PM EDT
With a wry smile, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg laid waste Friday to all those rumors about the fate of the Affordable Care Act in the Supreme Court.
“Those who know don’t talk. And those who talk don’t know,” she quipped Friday night at a conference hosted by the American Constitution Society at the Capital Hilton.
Ginsburg said she was responding to a "steady stream of rumors and fifth-hand accounts" about the court's deliberations on the law.
(Also on POLITICO: Democrats in the dark on how to respond to SCOTUS ruling)
Careful not to tip her hand on the court’s ruling — expected in the next two weeks — Ginsburg described the oral arguments in the case as unprecedented for the number of “press conferences, prayer circles, protests and counterprotests” that occurred on the courthouse steps.
Although she offered no insight into the tightly held decisions of her colleagues, Ginsburg did indicate that many of the court’s decisions over the next two weeks — which are also expected to include an FCC indecency ruling — might be close.
The 21 remaining decisions, she said, were “many of the most controversial cases” that the court reviewed this term.
“It is likely that the sharp disagreement rate will go up next week and the week after,” she said.
Although the oral arguments on the ACA spanned six hours over three days, she noted that a case cited during those arguments — McCullough v. Maryland — featured oral arguments that spanned nine days over two months.
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So far the effort to staff the supreme court with women seems to be producing nothing but total disregard for the constitution. Is there a woman on the bench in this country who actually understands what this country is supposed to be?
She’s the leak..............
My thoughts too. It’s subtle, but she would not have spoken if it were going to be ruled OK — her way.
I think Sotamayer and Kagan will both vote against Obamacare. Party loyalty is not a necessity in a job for life. That is the precise reason WHY the “life” term was created.
i am suprised there were no body language experts disecting her coments and appearance.
The really good ones can realy really do a good job in determining what is really going on.
Good reasoning for 8-1! I hope & pray you’re right. I still think it will be a miracle if it is shot down 6-3, but I very much hope & pray that at least it gets shot down 5-4. Anything more than that will be a miracle IMO.
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